May this month leading up to the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons be an opportunity for us to learn, pray, and act to end human trafficking and protect children during this time of heightened vulnerability due to the pandemic!
Protect Children from Online Trafficking
Child online sexual exploitation and trafficking is rampant. As with all pandemics, online sexual abuse and trafficking of children is not easy to detect, threatens lives, especially of the most vulnerable, and if unaddressed, will have daunting and irreversible impacts on families and society.
One law that is already in place to help protect children from online exploitation and trafficking is the Protect Our Children Act of 2008. However, the Attorney General has been derelict in his duties to request funding and ensure that the task forces created by this law to protect children are able to do their job. The DOJ’s inattention to this crisis has left our children at higher risk for becoming victims of the most heinous of crimes. Please join us by clicking the button below and sign your name to our letter to Attorney General Barr to fully fund and enforce the oversight and protections of the Protect Our Children Act of 2008.
Prayer
God of power and possibility,
God of light and love,
God of hope and resurrection,
God of presence and grace,
We entrust our prayers,
Our questions,
Our commitments,
Our longings,
And all that remains left unsaid
Into your Heart,
The one heart
Of our collective body.
Unite us,
Empower us,
Sustain us,
And liberate us
To do the work
You call us to do in the world.
We give you thanks and praise for this day
And the possibility of tomorrow.
AMEN.
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